From the independent producer project of KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is a program of stories and personal documentaries and today on the program the

story of a musician whose music was as beautiful and unusual as her life was mysterious and

tragic even today her song sound unique and Life was mysterious and tragic.

Even today, her songs sound unique and intense,

but they came out of a life of crime, drug abuse, and pain.

From KCRW and KCRW.com, it's called The Lost Genius of Judy Sill.

It's unfictional.

Most of my songs always try to write them that they will make people feel better.

But I thought one day when I was real depressed that, you know how when you're real depressed and you see everything comes to nothing.

Well I thought, maybe I better take a different approach and write a song instead of directly that people

that would somehow musically induce God into giving us all a break.

So I was getting a little fed up by this point.

Since that time I've decided that I shouldn't get any more breaks because I already

squandered them in weird places, but I'd like to sing this song for you and hope that you'll

get a break.

I was in a dingy corner of a record shop when I first spotted her, an unfamiliar long-haired woman staring directly out from her album cover.

One of the shop staff had attached a note.

For fans of musicians of the early 70s, like Laura Niro, Joanie Mitchell and Carol King.

I'll chase him to the bottom till I finally caught on dreams, boldly.

Where the voices gonna shine in a rhyme and one in a rhyme an eye in

and be their words are raining in a whole The unabashed intensity of the warning here of me.

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